FPGA still has some advantages over ASIC development:
- development speed of FPGA over the typical ASIC lifecycle is much shorter
- the ability to field-program and correct a design flaw can not only save expensive iterations, but also to add new hardware features essentially as a "firmware" upgrade (provided the FPGA in the system has extra capacity)
There will always be a place for ASIC, but FPGAs provide some capabilities that are not available (impossible?) for ASIC.
- development speed of FPGA over the typical ASIC lifecycle is much shorter
- the ability to field-program and correct a design flaw can not only save expensive iterations, but also to add new hardware features essentially as a "firmware" upgrade (provided the FPGA in the system has extra capacity)
There will always be a place for ASIC, but FPGAs provide some capabilities that are not available (impossible?) for ASIC.